Red Fox Ridge.

When Zhou Yang and Zhou Guangxiang returned here, white curtains were still hanging in front of the doors of the houses and on the trees on the Lingshan Mountain.

The fall of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan is an extremely sad and sad thing for all the Zhou family.

For the Zhou family, he is not only a ninth-level foundation building cultivator, a third-order high-grade refiner, but also an elder who is admired and respected by everyone.

When such an elder died, it is not an exaggeration for the Zhou family to wear linen and filial piety for him.

"Yang'er, this is the suicide note left by the old patriarch to you, this suicide note was also found by us after his death, together with his storage bag, his old man has long had a will to die, and he has long hidden a magic weapon and savings in the family spirit objects that were transported back!"

On the Red Fox Ridge, when Zhou Yang put the urn formed after the cremation of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan's head into the ancestral hall, Zhou Xuanhao, who accompanied him to worship, took out a jade slip from the storage bag and gave it to him.

Zhou Minghan wrote several suicide notes, and everyone close to him had one, but now only Zhou Yang and Zhou Xuanyu have not yet been opened.

"Is there still no news from my stepmother and sister?"

Zhou Yang clenched the jade slip with a heavy heart, and did not rush to open it to read, but asked about his stepmother Zhou Xuanyu.

Since Zhou Xuanyu took Zhou Yuanyao out to practice seven or eight years ago, there has been no news from her, if it weren't for the fact that there was no problem with the soul card she left in the family, all the high-ranking members of the Zhou family would have wondered if she had fallen unexpectedly.

And Zhou Yang knew that although Zhou Minghan had never mentioned this matter, the old patriarch must have hoped that his only granddaughter could accompany him to see him off when his longevity was getting closer and closer.

Now that Zhou Minghan has died, if he doesn't talk about the end, Zhou Yang can guess that in the suicide note given to him by the old patriarch, there will definitely be something about Zhou Xuanyu.

"No, the last time the third sister asked Yao'er to convey the news was five years ago, when she only said that everything was normal in the letter, and did not mention anything else. ”

Zhou Xuanhao shook his head and answered Zhou Yang's question in a low voice.

"The boy understood. ”

Zhou Yang was silent for a while, nodded, and then went directly back to his bedroom in Ziyun Cave, opened Zhou Minghan's suicide note to him, and read it.

"Xiao Jiu, when you see this suicide note, the old man must no longer be in the world. ”

"You are the pride of our Zhou family, the old man is very satisfied with everything you have done since you took over as the patriarch, but the only thing that is not satisfied is that you have to be strong in everything, and you only want to be clear in your heart, but you don't consider the consequences of your failure!"

"You are the patriarch of the Zhou family, and the hope of the entire Zhou family, have you ever thought about what kind of situation the Zhou family will fall into once something happens to you?"

"The old man said this, not to accuse you, but to warn you one last time, since you choose to be the patriarch of the Zhou family, you must change your style of acting in the future!"

"The kind of practice that no matter what others do, I just want to have a clear conscience, is only suitable for those solitary monks who are alone!"

"As the patriarch of the Zhou family, you don't talk about personal matters, when it comes to the affairs of the entire family, you should learn to focus on the overall situation, don't mix too many personal feelings to make decisions, and make decisions based on the overall situation. ”

"A gecko with a broken tail can be reborn, but if the snake has no head, it will definitely die!"

"The Zhou family is prosperous because of Xiao Jiu, if something happens to you, Xiao Jiu, the Zhou family will definitely die because of you!"

"The old man knows that you are smart and assertive, and you may not listen to the words of others, no matter how reasonable it is, so the old man did not argue with you about who went to the Chen family to support this time, but only used his own body to teach you this last lesson, I hope that when you experience similar things in the future, you can focus more on the overall situation, and don't just rely on personal feelings!"

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After Zhou Yang read Zhou Minghan's suicide note, his eyes couldn't help but be wet with tears.

"I killed my great-grandfather!"

He remembered the conversation between himself and the old patriarch Zhou Minghan that day, and remembered that Zhou Minghan wanted to speak at that time, and his face was suddenly full of remorse.

If he hadn't known that Zhou Minghan had lived for a few years, and wanted him to stay in the family and wait for the time to come, Zhou Minghan would definitely not have used his life to teach him this last lesson in life so decisively!

Now that I think about it, if Zhou Minghan was asked to go to the White Hump at that time, with the protection of the mountain protection array, with Zhou Minghan's cultivation, it would not be any problem for Cao Wenjin to arrive alive until the end.

It's a pity that there is no regret in the world to take medicine, and he would not have thought in advance that he had a good heart and did something wrong!

In a sense, Zhou Minghan's goal has been achieved, and the last lesson he taught to Zhou Yang with his life is indeed thought-provoking and unforgettable.

In this way, Zhou Yang locked himself in the bedroom for seven days before he walked out of the bedroom and started to deal with family affairs.

The migration of the Zhou family monks to the Red Fox Ridge naturally brought great pressure to the Lingshan here, after all, these were hundreds of Qi cultivation period monks and several foundation building monks.

But now that the situation is uncertain, Zhou Yang does not dare to rashly let people move back to the Yuquan Lake Oasis.

Therefore, after some careful consideration, he decided to let some of the low-level monks return to Yuquan Peak and Haoyang Mountain to cultivate the spiritual field first, so as not to let the spiritual field be abandoned, and at the same time, let the mortals of the Zhou family there know that the Zhou family monks did not really give up on them.

And the rest of the monks are still concentrating on cultivation on the side of Red Fox Ridge for the time being.

In order to solve the problem of the spiritual energy consumed by these people's cultivation, Zhou Yang specially took out 30,000 spirit stones from the family savings and raised the spiritual vein level of the Red Fox Ridge to the middle grade of the third order.

Then he asked his father Zhou Xuanhao to take over the position of the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, and handle family affairs on behalf of the patriarch when he was in retreat and when he was not in the family.

After dealing with all kinds of things that needed to be dealt with urgently, Zhou Yang said goodbye to his father and Taoist couples, and sat up directly in the Purple Cloud Cave.

In this retreat, he will never go out if he is not promoted to the ninth layer of the foundation building!

......

Zhou Yang's retreat did not affect the operation of the Zhou family, nor did it affect the situation in the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm.

After he retreated for more than half a year, Jiang Yuyan officially practiced the "Outer Dao Jindan" and went out.

After she left the customs, Cao Wenjin, who had only a few longevity left, immediately led dozens of family foundation building monks who had gathered the past to attack the Lingshan where Guo Shuyun was stationed.

Originally, Guo Shuyun signed an offensive and defensive alliance agreement with Luo Yunqing, and if any party was attacked, the other party would need support.

It's just that in the face of Jiang Yuyan, who has become a "foreign way Jindan", and Cao Wenjin, whose real strength is unknown, how can Luo Yunqing have the courage to leave the formation and go out to fight.

Therefore, Guo Shuyun, who was isolated in the end, had to abandon Lingshan after holding on for several months, and escaped from the encirclement alone through the "Blood Escape Technique", and fled to Luofeng Mountain to join Luo Yunqing.

After breaking through the Lingshan occupied by Guo Shuyun, Jiang Yuyan and Cao Wenjin slaughtered all the monks who followed Guo Shuyun's rebellion on Lingshan, and then surrounded Luofeng Mountain with a large army, completely cutting off the channel between Luofeng Mountain and the outside world.

However, they can only surround Luofeng Mountain, facing Luofeng Mountain, which is garrisoned by Luo Yunqing and Guo Shuyun, two Zifu period monks and dozens of foundation building monks, unless they can gather hundreds of foundation building monks and two or three thousand Qi cultivation period monks to storm for a year and a half, otherwise they don't want to break the mountain protection array of Luofeng Mountain.

It's not that Huangshamen can't do this, but in order to do this, they must first completely pacify the rebellious monk families outside Luofeng Mountain, so that they can do this without worrying about the whole sect.

The monks of the Zhou family did not participate in the battle of Luofeng Mountain, but Zhou Guangxiang, Zhou Guangxiang, brother and sister, and more than a dozen monks in the late stage of Qi cultivation were also sent out to help Huangshamen pacify the rebel families.

For these people, this counterinsurgency is not only an opportunity for training, but also an opportunity to reap benefits.

It's just that this good situation didn't last long, and Cao Wenjin finally couldn't hold on to it after besieging Luofeng Mountain for a year.

His sitting not only made Huangshamen lose a top-level combat power, but also a major blow to the morale of the army.

Without his help, Jiang Yuyan alone, although he could still crush Luo Yunqing and Guo Shuyun in terms of combat power, he could no longer completely block Luofeng Mountain and prevent any monks from entering or leaving.

Moreover, after the news of Cao Wenjin's incorporation spread, some forces and loose cultivators who had previously been silent and did not dare to act rashly began to move again.

Those monks of Luo Yunqing's side, who were still fighting guerrilla warfare with the Huangshamen rebel monks in the sea of sand, returned to the family Lingshan with high morale and erected a counter-flag, preparing to unite to relieve the siege of Fengshan.

For a while, the Boundless Sand Sea Immortal Cultivation Realm, which had just settled down for a short time, was in chaos again.

All these changes, Zhou Yang, who was sitting dead in the Purple Cloud Cave, naturally didn't know anything.

During his retreat, the wildflowers on the Red Fox Ridge bloomed and thanked, thanked and bloomed.

After nine times in a row, the door of the retreat room, which had been closed until now, was finally opened from within.

Nine years!

After nine years of retreat, Zhou Yang finally got out.

There is no doubt that after leaving the customs, he officially became a ninth-level foundation monk, and as long as he did not open up the Purple Mansion, his mana would not increase in any way.

Nine years to advance from the eighth layer of foundation building to the ninth layer of foundation building, this speed is unbelievable for ordinary monks, even a high-grade spiritual root monk like Xiao Ying can hardly do this.

But in the Zhou family, this kind of thing happened to Zhou Yang, but no one had any doubts and wonders about it.

The people of the Zhou family were already accustomed to his speed of cultivation and improvement.

Compared to his previous cultivation improvement speed, it took nine years to improve his cultivation level this time, and in the eyes of some low-level Qi cultivation stage cultivators who didn't know the difficulty of it, he even felt that it was slow.

Zhou Yang himself is also a little dissatisfied with this speed.

You must know that during the nine years of his retreat, he not only used up the "Yuhua Zhu Lu Dan" that he exchanged for from Huangshamen and the elixir he got in Rhino Horn Continent, but also took the remaining "Huo Jiao Pill" used by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan.

"I thought I could enter the ninth layer of foundation building before I was 100 years old, but I didn't expect that in the end, it was delayed until I was 100 and 3 years old to reach this step, and the path of cultivation was really the further back, the more difficult it became!"

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